How To Change Roof Line

Installing the new roof to provide a framework for the new trusses nail 2 by 6 inch strips of wood around the perimeter of the roof.

How to change roof line. Reasons for changing the roof line or raising the roof. Remodeling the home would be cheaper than moving i e. Use a pry bar to pull nails loose then remove them with a crow bar or. Use prefabricated trusses to put a new pitch.

Changing a roof line cost permits site planning. Overlay the footprint. Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home. Realtor fees to sell moving expenses etc.

Take photographs of the house from all sides. First of all let s look at why people choose to raise the roof or change the roofline. Take off shingles or other roof. In the transform replicate objectdialog.

Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it. Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. Remove rafters or trusses one at a time. Or if you want to raise the roof a bit more install fascia around the roof perimeter attached to the new soffit and nail the new roof deck to crown molding above the fascia.

The home doesn t meet your family s needs but you still love the location. Measure the exterior walls of the house and plot them out on the graph paper at a scale of inch equals one. This is best done on a ladder to accurately show the roof as much. Click the transform replicate objectedit button.

Change the pitch on an existing sloped roof by removing the old roof and framing. How to change a roofline step 1.